Anger Worm

Your pic looks like a drawing! Very clean, crisp paint job, and very evocative colors. Excellent work.

You have me itching to do a mechanical crew. Ressers need more robots!

Along with alternate Seamus I worked on several of the Dead Justice figs for my first batch. The large areas of exposed skin on Seamus, his belle and the Dead Doxy had me playing around with skin tones. I decided to minimalize the level of overt decay and go for a cold corpse feel by using some blue shading and highlighting to white. I wanted less rot and more sex appeal.

The Punk Zombie and Dead Doxy from the Nightmare box are two of my favorite resser sculpts, and why I bought the box in the first place.

Here they are:

Dead Doxy

Crooked Man

Punk Zombie

Soundwave superior!

Great crews. I'm stealing the poster idea!

Hey guys,

So I swore I would never ever play this game or so help me! Seemed gimmicky with its deck of cards (what is this, Doomtown?), and a range I found hit-and-miss. Besides, my queue was more than full. Between Fantasy, 40k, Warmachine, Dystopian- there was just no way. No. Damn. Way.

As time went on and I saw Wyrd's new releases I started to appreciate the style. Dystopian Wars never caught on at my club and when the groovy Nightmare Dead Justice's box came out I bit the bullet. Still, the box sat on the shelf so in an effort to self motivate I signed up for some Malifaux at Adepticon 2012 in April. There, now I'd have to paint a crew and learn to play or I'd be embarrassed. Shame is surely what drives this hobby!

So after the highs and lows of dedication and procrastination, I finally finished my initial crew this very week. I've also begun to learn to play and have been more than pleasantly surprised by the game; it is very much not a gimmick, but rather a deep and varied skirmish experience. And the models seem to be getting cooler.

First up is the madman himself. When I saw the Alternate Seamus sculpt I was well sold on him being my initial master. Army of Darkness pose with a belle at his side, about the only thing that I didn't like was his wimpy pistol. No, what Seamus needed was a proper boomstick.

When I was cleaning the model and thinking about possible color schemes I noticed his really defined maniacal smile. It reminded me of Jack Nicholson in the first Batman which I've loved (and who hasn't?) since I was a kid. This stuck with me and I decided on the Joker's classic clashy purple and turquoise-green, with accents of bright red and gold. NMM would keep things suitably cartoonish, which I think suits the range.

A clubmate set me up with a nice collection of sewer bases from Wyrd's insert range. Between these and some plasticard tubing I envisioned some subterranean alcove, or the back alleys of a pumping station where the desperate and lonely of Malifaux would be lured with the promise of corpse lovin' only to be disappointed, then eviscerated.

Seamus, The Mad Hatter

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